Contact Admissions

Undergraduate
admiss@desales.edu

ACCESS Lifelong Learning
access@desales.edu

Graduate
gradadmissions@desales.edu

Accreditations

DeSales University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation.

Associations

DeSales is a member of the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges, which offers cross-registration and interlibrary loan with Cedar Crest, Lafayette, Moravian, and Muhlenberg Colleges, and Lehigh University.

How we get our alumni data:
Information on our alums comes from various sources. Alums are surveyed upon graduation and again approximately 6 months after graduation. At that time we ask them for their employment information, family information, and post-graduation plans.

The alumni office sends out a monthly e-newsletter which has a link for alums to update their information, and the The DeSales Magazine asks for updated information, as well. Once every five years we contract with a company who publishes an alumni directory and contacts alums to have them update their information. We also receive emails and updates from the alums directly, and have begun to gather public information from social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

When we report alumni numbers, we aren’t using a sample size, but are using real numbers in comparison to the number of active alumni we have in our database. For example, when we report the percentage of graduate and evening alumni who live or work in the Lehigh Valley area, we take the total number of graduate and ACCESS alums we have in the database who are living or working in the Lehigh, Northampton, Bucks or Montgomery counties and divide that by the total number of active alums (non-deceased, mailable alums, in US).

# of graduate & ACCESS alums living/working in LV area = 5,069

# of active graduate & ACCESS alums in database = 6,617

% graduate & ACCESS alums living/working in LV area = %76.6

If you have any questions about our alumni data, please contact Lori.Glass@desales.edu.